Reporting directly to our Species Leader Swine Ester Vinyeta, Kostas Syriopoulos will be involved in customer technical service in various countries, especially in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, and will support Ester Vinyeta in swine product management and development.

Jan Dirk van der Klis, Head of Products and Innovation, said: "I am happy that Kostas Syriopoulos joined Customer Technical Services to complete our swine team. Since the start of this year, Delacon has integrated the Research and Development department and the Species Leader/Customer Technical Services teams in a new 'Products and Innovation' division to improve the efficiency of new product development, reduce time to market and improve sales support.

"With Kostas in our team, we will be able to further improve our services."

Mr Syriopoulos is well experienced in swine nutrition, feed formulation, feed evaluation and feed technology. Recently, he served as Feed Evaluation Manager at Agrifirm Innovation Center in the Netherlands.

Prior to that he served as nutritionist and quality manager in LAKY SA, a large feed mill in Greece.

Mr Syriopoulos studied Animal Science with emphasis on animal husbandry at the Agricultural University of Athens and holds a master's degree from Wageningen University (Netherlands) where he focused on Swine Nutrition and Feed Technology.

Kostas Syriopoulos has joined Delacon in April 2015. He will be responsible for the Customer Technical Service Swine.